Maybe even before checking the news for the day, we should stimulate our happy hormones by looking at the joyful pictures and messages of our loved ones. The ideal is for happy social media content to far outnumber the gloomy ones.
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Storm signal number 1 remained over Batanes and Babuyan Islands early Sunday as Tropical depression Ambo is forecast to weaken into a low pressure area within 24 hours, the state weather bureau said.
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A low pressure area spotted off Mindanao has strengthened into a Tropical Depression and is named, Ambo, the first storm to enter the Philippines this year, the state weather bureau said Sunday.
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The global coronavirus pandemic has inflicted an economic crisis unlike any in the past century and will require a massive response to ensure recovery, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said Thursday.
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G20 nations pledged a "united front" Thursday in the fight against coronavirus, saying they were injecting $5 trillion into the global economy to counter the pandemic amid forecasts of a deep recession.
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Daily wage earners who want to make a living during the monthlong lockdown of Luzon do not need a voter's ID to apply to join a government disinfection drive against the coronavirus epidemic, the labor department said Thursday.
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The labor department on Thursday said it received reports that some employers had refused to apply for a P5,000 government assistance for every worker hit by a Luzon-wide lockwide to contain the novel coronavirus.
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One Federal Reserve official has said the unemployment rate could hit 30 percent, 3 times its level at the worst point of the 2008-09 Great Recession. And he has suggested that GDP could fall at a 50 percent annual rate next quarter, which would be 5 times worse than the worst single quarter on record. Economic forecasters at major banks differ in degree, not direction, of the disaster facing the US economy.
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HONG KONG, China - Nearly one in three adults in Hong Kong reported symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder during months of often violent social unrest in the city, according to a study published in The Lancet medical journal Friday.
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